skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can definitely see about moving some of the controls around. When I was testing it, I just had a lot of "wasted space" around the edges, so I figured I could use that for the controls and instructions. I guess I should rethink that.

You're correct that I'm scanning for the save type. Auto-detection is something I want to get in at some point, but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet. I was considering using a database for the save types as well, but I didn't know if such a database existed. I was just planning on pre-computing it by the same way I'm currently detecting it, which as you say has problems.
An interesting way of implementing this may be to flip the responsibility of 'translation'.

Here the git client includes logic to speak (translate to) ftp - which is great for this purpose.

What if you could say:
`git push fleet master`

where fleet is a remote that translates git-speak into a deployment.

I realize - this is simply an imitation of Heroku. But, it may be interesting to flex git in this way: a code change protocol.

This and the recently discussed codeq could yield some very interesting possibilities.
Thanks. I tried Scala but got a bit scared :-) I chose Clojure as the next step from Java. But that doesn't exclude Scala by any means - it's just about time that I play with it as I've heard it isn't that complex as people think of it.
To your prediction: Nope, Opa is an old thing already. Maybe it was a interesting project when they compiled to native code, but now it's just another way to use node.js.

I would have used it 2 years ago but there seemed to be no easy way to use HTML5 with it. It was fix with XHTML 1.1.
I read it as "researchers grow their personal beards", which sounded much more realistic...
Main topics for Firebird Conference 2012
well, the DNS would be 8.8.8.8 anyway :)
Looks good. I was using cURL, so that explains the ~100k vs. ~28k discrepancy.
In hindsight my phrasing came across as very insulting and if I could edit it now, I would. Please note that the intent was merely to snarkily question his domain knowledge regarding Web development, and not to assert he was clearly an incompetent.

I also fully admit that as an undergraduate student, I am nowhere near as impressive as the Stanford PhD student (though you could have chosen a more fair comparison than between a copy-edited resume and a skimming of my "GitHub resume"). I do humbly submit that MathQuill is more substantive than any JavaScript project you or Edward Yang has ever created (or than your or his contributions to any JavaScript project).
Ask HN: Do you know of any startups targeting problems of young married couples?
Young married working couples usually have some unique problems like :

1. Where to leave their kids when they are working? Play Schools and other services exists but how to discover them and know it is reliable? Is there any organization that reviews and rates such services?

2. House work - cleaning, home cooked food(especially if there is a young kid having special needs), etc.

What are some startups that provides innovative solutions to problems of this target market?
You should let Jason Scott know about this. He's been pushing a similar project for MAME. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3685
So, does the web developer have to develop a browser for each platform then? Do each web dev have to write their own image library etc.? Intresting idea, but there have to be more effective ways of solving this problem.
Either cheat, or change the rules (i.e., solve a related but easier problem).
Why not use insertion sort - as an on-line algorithm, it can be used to immediately sort the list as it's build.

The implementation is straight-forward: instead of appending new elements to the end of the list, insert them in the correct place.

My personal go-to algorithm for linked lists is an unstable merge-sort variant with explicit stack[1] - while not as simple as insertion sort, performance is far superior.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/cggaertner/listsort/src/master/listsor...
I've heard that this quote doesn't come from Gandhi. See for example
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/16-misquoted-quotations/
I came across this 2007 publication claiming creation of something similar to ball lightning.

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v98/i4/e048501
AMD’s layoffs target engineering; Board incompetence dooms the company
well, I've played around with some Firefox code, but to be honest its pretty messy. I'd say if you want a project you can fairly easily understand and submit a patch for look at webkit, the code is clean and straightforward (http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html) though the docs are basically non-existent (if you like docs, personally I think clean code beats documentation any day)
Check KDE - Its a DE and collection of various software. There are mentors available, so its great for beginners to get started.

http://kde.org/community/whatiskde/
http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/development
Sun Goes Down. Up Comes A Mystery
An Analysis of Android Architecture
SOA governance standard goes global
Here's a nice poster demonstrating CSS specificity with fish. http://www.standardista.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/speci...
The 10-100-1000 factor is in a large base, shown recently in most browsers to be base-256. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388649
Interview with Jared White
I don't even know what igoogle is or does.

User adoption is what drives features like this to remain, not how useful they are.
I think its sadder not that they don't know but don't bother our of sheer apathy and expect canned knowledge ready to be pumped into their minds on stack exchange or google.

That applies to the majority of 'knowledge' these days.
Chen alleges "... Violentacrez and his fellow moderators worked hard to make sure every girl on jailbait was underage, diligently deleting any photos of whose subjects seemed older than 16 or 17 ..."

then Chen alleges at Gawker, "... His speciality is distributing images of scantily-clad underage girls, but as Violentacrez he also issued an unending fountain of racism, porn, gore, misogyny, incest, and exotic abominations yet unnamed, all on the sprawling online community Reddit. ..." ~ http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...

I would say Chen is writing this as a public interest piece. I would also guess these allegations would be across the desk of members of law enforcement as a possible or potential paedophilia ring.
The 2012 Nobel prizes
not sure you can post a proprietary bios like that on github, while the emulator itself may be the author's code , i'm pretty sure the bios is not open source.
In france there is http://www.mykid.fr/ and they are currently hiring.
Conference Sets
I can't comment on the quality of the theory described here, but I hope you realise there is silicon everywhere - most common minerals contain a substantial proportion of Si.
Totally agree to your point of view--Google is growing, then what's the problem if the code grows? It doesn't matter, what matters is that the load time is low.
Love Poetry for Everyone
Love Poetry for Everyone
First off, if you were offended, that bad writing on my part, and I apologize. If I could edit it now, I would.

The meaning was indeed unambiguous, what I intended to say was that your choice of words damaged your credibility a wee bit. Happens to me all the time, I can see now that you just wrote a quick blog post to promote a paper a friend wrote that you found thought-provoking. No judgement.

In replies to other comments, you seem to have quite clearly addressed the concern that the proposal is essentially the Java VM all over again, countering that this proposal has a better ABI that will make all the difference (is my understanding correct?). Nowhere have I seen you address my concern that this, not just violates, but completely and utterly rejects a core design principle of the current Web that is arguably partly responsible for its success (certainly Tim Berners-Lee, the creator and essentially BDFL of the Web, argues for it).

In fact, this concern occurred to you: "I can’t use Adblock or Greasemonkey anymore (that would involve injecting code into arbitrary executables), and it’s much harder for me to take websites and use them in ways their owners didn’t originally expect. (Would search engines exist in the same form in this new world order?)" However, it looks like you didn't really think that thought through, and had never heard of the Principle of Least Power.

Again, I don't claim to fully agree with it. However, I can't deny that the Web is incredibly successful, and if I were to assert the creator of such a successful technology was completely wrong about one of the fundamental design principles that they espouse was critical to their technologies' success, I'd have some damn good arguments why.

A charismatic professor of mine, Scott Shenker, has a quote by Don Norman he likes a lot: "Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right." This, Shenker says, is why a physicist invented the Web, not a computer scientist.

I don't know. But it's hard to argue with success.
plain/text gives you JSON in MVC 4. I understood what you were saying, the default in MVC 4 is now to return JSON unless you specify otherwise.
Pretty solid find. Great for explaining to newbs.
nice movie
Lockout 2012 is a nice English action movie.Set in the near future, a falsely convicted ex-government agent has one chance at obtaining freedom. He must undertake a dangerous mission to rescue the President’s daughter from rioting convicts
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/09/lockout-2012-download-mov...
yes...Twoology is just such a start-up.
www.twoology.com
My interpretation would be that he saw Google-employees as omniscient demigods, and now has a more realistic view.
It's not Conways life, but biologists use cellular automata as models to show that simple rules can create such things as a zebra's stripes, a leopard's spots, the competition between bacterial colonies, development of the human brain, etc. Google "cellular automata in biology" for examples (the first hit I got is http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/pubs/jtb_ca.pdf. Twenty years old, but to my outsider's eye, it appears to be a decent overview)
This never ceases to entertain me. I only wish I could do something like that some time.
Video: Space shuttle Endeavour begins final journey in LA
There is a very matured Ruby opensource project out there. https://github.com/danielweinmann/catarse and a support group https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/catarse-d...

AFAIK is has been the alternative solution for people who had very horrible experiences with Paypal's 2 month+ waiting period for transaction procession approvals or with paid scripts like Agriya SF where one has to pay no less than $1000 just to make subtle changes in code or wait for a month to get a response on their forum.

Then there is http://ignitiondeck.com/id/ and http://appstorm.com.br/wordpress-crowdfunding-template/ and http://siteorigin.com/wordpress-crowd-funding/ for wordpress
So is the following critique out of date? http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell...
1-5 kB would be even more interesting. That would make Google's flagship page several orders of magnitude smaller than most websites.
See also: smurf attack.
Bret Victor on live coding
I did a quick search for a game, found "Mario Golf - Advance Tour (USA).gba", and the emulator crashed immediately after upload.

edit: Tried one more, "2563 - Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (U).gba". Crashed slightly later, about a second after upload.

Not sure what else to say. It's great to say JS projects like this but I can't make it work.
OK, I would think (based on years of on off practice) that the effects of meditation do generalise to other situations.

Here's an RCT that suggests that meditation is effective over and above relaxation in producing positive states of mind.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/720772266xj33972/
Here's a more directly related study which showed that meditators showed greater ability to focus attention than did controls:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13674679908406332
Finally - a randomised controlled trial of the effects of mindfulness meditation on attention showing that mindfulness is more effective than progressive relaxation training in building up the four components of attention:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/617t1648164627q4/

This was extremely trivial to find (two google scholar searches, one on meditation and distraction (first link) and the second on meditation and attention (second and third links). The first and third links have open access papers linked from Google Scholar if you would like to know more.
It would be interesting to do an experiment, and see if they would have gotten product out as fast, perhaps with higher quality, by just working 80 hour work weeks instead of 120+.

I have to believe, at some point, those extra hours started to reduce efficiency to the point at which there was a negative return on investment.
Spatial is great! What's better than WKT though? WKB?
I'm really excited about all the new features in 4.0. The more I read, the more I can't wait to try it out on my dev server. The new features that are most interesting to me: spatial search improvements, atomic updates, custom scoring options, pivot faceting, speed improvements and Solr Cloud. All these have the potential to make searches on $work's website much more relevant and faster.
With your advanced ftp technology you are blinding me with your retro chic. I need git over smoke signals. Nothing else is 19th century enough.

Seriously, other than it was a fun fidget, what was the point?
Уральские пельмени. Тень знаний. часть 1 - (2012)
With "skeptic" in the name, I was expecting much, much better. It's a pretty bland application of some rule-of-thumb (perhaps, dogmatic) beliefs about tooth decay, which doesn't hold up to reality.

One of the problems which comes to mind is that mouth wash has NEVER proven effective in preventing tooth decay (and companies that make Scope, Listerene and others would really LOVE to be able to say that it does). Meanwhile, this article blindly asserts that they will work quite well.

This issue throws every other claim into doubt, too, since the bacteria is claimed be be the sole cause of decay, and a mouth wash certainly could kill-off bacteria in the mouth. It seems tooth decay is a far more complex activity than the model used in this discussion.
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sittercity.com
Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) has been a permanent addition to my toolkit for this exact reason. Cross platform, cross browser HTTP monitoring and proxying with throttling and all sorts of goodies.

I believe there are several pure-CLI ways of doing this as well, but Charles is $40 well spent.
On unix you can set up a pipe on the network with a speed limit.

Also, if you are on osx you can use apples own network simulator: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24066/how-to-simula...
Thanks for that, I read that study when it came out (the second one) but could never find it again.
I wonder who would be interested in buying AMD if things keep going downhill. Maybe a large Asian manufacturer like Lenovo?
Do you find that 3-5 minutes is enough? I just tried meditating for the first time, and set a 5 minute timer. When it went off, it felt like only 2 minutes had passed and I could have (and wanted to) go on longer.
Nice work! very entertaining. Now I wish google use it:-)
I know that in the short term it works. We also know that jwz has no desire to code professionally again.
Your email is not visible to others in your profile. You need to put it in the 'about me' box if you want people to be able to contact you.
Is there an explanation somewhere (preferably with a diagram) of how this launch was supposed to work? I'm not sure where the satellite was attached, and how the upper stage was supposed to boost it - was it going to drop the dragon off at one orbit and then continue higher and release the satellite?
Unimportant? It's probably good for their SEO :).
When posting something like this, please explain to me what I should expect and why it is interesting, either here or on your blog or whatever.

What happens is namely that I get a page that looks like google.com. Big whoop. And considering that the URL contains the string "chromeexperiments" I didn't immediately realize that I had to open it in Safari instead of Chrome to see the effect.

For others in the same pickle: The effect is that the DOM elements fall down, as if there is gravity.
The point of this study is to supplament previous studies of ball lightning. The most widely accepted theory is that ball lightning is a ball of silicon gas, resulting from lightning striking the ground. That obviously didn't address the cases of ball lightning appearing in and around aircraft, which is the gap this study fills in.

So now it seems we have one workable theory of ball lightning. To claim it is incomplete, you need to find cases of ball lightning that were both a significant distance away from the ground AND far, far away from any windows.

My doubts about this theory lie in the various behaviors when ball lightning encouters solid objects... Sometimes it burns a hole, while other times witnesses claim it passed right through solid objects without causing any damage. That seems to indicate there may be two very different types of ball lightning, but perhaps the ground versus windows source will prove to generate a sufficiently different type of ball which will suit both observations.
Think how much they could have accomplished if they just worked 40 hour weeks!
This slide deck is deeply ironic. It is Zach Holman's presentations (full of macho posing and aggressive language - including this one) that give the impression that github is a macho and aggressive company on the inside. Perhaps it isn't, but the spokeman is terrible.

"I hate brogrammers" - but if I was asked to name a famous one, Zach be it. Excessive swearing in talks, "people on the internet are dicks", "OAuth will murder your children". If Zach Holman was holding a work barbecue, would people take their children?
LOL, I had forgotten: I already use a custom getElementsByClassName if there isn't one! So the it already works in IE < 9... check out the source code :)
http://www.ashleymadison.com/ ?
Exactly. When shit hits the fan, expensive contractors go first. Then the executives that lost to other executives.

Low wage workers rarely get cut first.
Time is Key Dont Let it Go
I've switched from iGoogle to opera portal ( http://portal.opera.com/ ), which is a pretty close equivalent (similar 3-column view etc). Only major loss is it has very few gadgets compared to iGoogle, it's mostly just for rss feeds. (And no, you don't need to use opera to use it).
An Attempt To Push Ubuntu As A Gaming Platform
Article says the opposite:

if there was not at least a 99 percent chance that the rocket had enough fuel to complete the burn
Does this depend on the universe having a finite amount of mass or what?
If you have SFTP, that implies you have SSH. Why not just use Git over SSH?
http://wittlebee.com/

http://www.petitebox.us/

https://www.honest.com/
Helping you select a JS MV* framework
> the most relevant search result might wiggle a little... or results that tilt or vibrate in varying directions might subtly hint at ranking according to a secondary scale

This was somewhat possible via a <blink> tag back in 1996 or so.
Well, that would screw over all merchants who were not screwed over by PayPal itself.
MicroBlaze emulator that runs Linux and is written in C++11
Works fine here on Chrome for Mac.
I have a business that relies solely on PayPal and reading every story like this makes me afraid of being the next one. What are global, not US-only, not credit-card only PayPal alternatives? Plus points for MassPayment API equivalents.
> Based on current engine failure rate, that's (17/18)^9 + (1/18)^8 + C(9,2) * (1/18)^2 * (17/18)^7

I think the second part of that calculation is incorrect. I'm getting:

P(0 engine fail) = (17/18)^9 ~= 0.5978
P(1 engine fail) = (17/18)^8 * (1/18) * C(9,1) ~= 0.3165
P(2 engine fail) = (17/18)^7 * (1/18)^2 * C(9,2) ~= 0.0745

Adding those together gives:

P(<=2 engine fail) = (17/18)^9 + (17/18)^8 / 2 + (17/18)^7 / 9 ~= 0.9888

That's the same answer you came up with, so I guess you have the correct calculation written down somewhere. Moving to 3 or more engine fails then gives:

P(>=3 engine fail) = 1 - P(<=2 engine fail) ~= 0.0112
I think that there is a tendency amongst us westerners to believe that meditation is about attaining something, Chögyam Trungpa described this as a type of "spiritual materialism". I've noticed this behaviour repeatedly, people feeling the need to quantify theirs and others progress or lack thereof.

If the writer of the TFA experiences 4 seconds of emptying his mind and a state of bliss, does it really matter that he didn't in your opinion use the correct terminology? or wasn't in the state long enough for this or that term to apply?

I enjoyed the article, it has inspired me to take up my own practise again, even 1 second of no thoughts and blissful awareness at the beginning of my day changes everything.
I could imagine two companies who have a vital anti-trust interest in keeping AMD alive: Intel for its processors, nVidia for the ATI graphics cards.
This is one of the last things I figured out when I was learning CSS, but it's arguably one of the most important. Once you realize that it exists, all of a sudden any new CSS you write will shrink and you'll understand all those weird quirks you were seeing but not understanding in your giant stylesheet.
Google's Driverless Car Draws Political Power
Not commenting on the correctness or otherwise of the rest, but 98.88 + 0.02 != 100. (You probably want 1.12% chance of triple or more failure.)
Torrentfreak I get, but what's so bad about techdirt?

Their "economics of free" series of articles is the single most useful online resource for dragging creative people into 21st century. You wouldn't believe how many musicians I know that spend their time worrying about selling CDs and getting a record deal... in 2012.

I consider them a valuable information source regarding the marketing and monetarization of zero marginal cost content.
Intel has ARM, ATI would be spun off if AMD went under.
The New Oracle
The author, emixam, is going to go deeper in the next part of the series. If I'm not mistaken, he'll show us the 'blueprints' concept - which I've understood is basically what "everone" who've contiuned developing their Flask code - starts using and keeps using.

So it's coming, hold on! :-)

On another note, I'd recommend that you check out my good pal Kenneth's link (also a comment to your comment).

And on a seperate note, I'd recommend watching "Diving into Flask - Head on" from EuroPython 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twaatBqmjE

It's basically a talk about a company that rewrote their current PHP site and took on Python and Flask - kept at it and banged out something pretty advanced. I liked watching it. I hope you do too.
The music is background since the music is not the focus of the video, the dancing baby is.

To me it seems that you are implying that parents wanted to post a tune from The Prince on the Internet and used a clip of their dancing baby as an excuse.

That is precisely wrong and precisely along the lines that label lawyers will probably try to draw.